Manny Pacquiao Vs. Vasiliy Lomachenko @ 140 — Who Takes It?

Pacquiao at 126, 130, 135 and certainly at 140.

Loma's best chances are at feather and super feather, but I'd still favor Manny.

 

Pac a G

 

Or ending up like this

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It's happened to other greats besides Manny.

Lomachenko never faced a fighter on Juan's level. Pacquiao went to war with him four times and got caught while going for the gusto in a ferocious battle, while Lomachenko played leery with a relative mediocrity like Teó.

 

JMM is a truly great fighter with a skillset and an indomitable spirit of the likes Lomachenko has never encountered. It's absurd to rub that KO in Pacquiao's face like it wasn't the honorable culmination of one of the most ferocious and iconic series of fights in the sport's history. He went out on his shield and would have gone back for more if Juan hadn't closed the book (not to say it wasn't his prerogative).

 

Many would have to touch Loma cleanly to KO him, and that wouldn't happen. Anything is possible, but I can't see that against the man who still has the best +/- in all of boxing.

 

Pacquiao fists him

 

The other thing too that I have to say, and this will upset some on the forum here, is that Manny was using PEDs throughout his career. I was always suspicious of it, but then during lockdown, when I did a Manny marathon and watched his fights back to back, it was painfully obvious that he was using HGH and likely other drugs. Manny's head slowly grew over the years, which if you're familiar with Barry Bonds, had the same thing happen. There's no reason for a man's body parts to get bigger unless he's on HGH.

 

Pacs legs during his peak beast phase

 

I wouldn't go as far as that. Juan placed a calculated strategic wager in the way only a truly great fighter could and executed clinically, but he had to go through hellfire to do it.

But I get what you're saying to an extent.